Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.

The unity of all science consists alone in its method, not in its material.

The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is applicable to social as well as to physical problems, and we must carefully guard ourselves against supposing that the scientific frame of mind is a peculiarity of the professional scientist.

Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.

I look upon statistics as the handmaid of medicine, but on that very account I hold that it befits medicine to treat her handmaid with proper respect, and not to prostitute her services for controversial or personal purposes.

It is the old experience that a rude instrument in the hand of a master craftsman will achieve more than the finest tool wielded by the uninspired journeyman.

The record of a month's roulette playing at Monte Carlo can afford us material for discussing the foundations of knowledge.